This Storyteller blog follows the progress of writer/performer Robert Crighton as he writes a series of new stories for live performance - as well as any other interesting theatre thing that might cross his path.

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Thursday, 8 December 2011

GhoStoryteller Preview

First thing, just want to get this off my chest. I can write witty blogs, I can write exciting blogs, I can write controversial blogs - hit rate remains the same for each. But if I write a blog about a DOG then the hits go through the roof. Here is a picture of the dog, her name is Tinkerbell. I am now going to change the name of Milk Bottle Productions to Tinkerbell's Magnificent Ensemble Company of Performing Humans. Here is a picture of the artistic director of the company.

The New Artistic Director

Do not feed her after midnight.

Anyway, this post concerns the GhoStoryteller show which starts after Christmas - there are still two and a bit weeks of The Natural History of Trolls, panic ye not - and which I am rehearsing now. It's a much looser show than Trolls, more relaxed. It's a few ghost stories tied together with a few thoughts of my own on the nature of ghosts. It's gone down well in the three tryouts and I've been tweaking the script for the last month. But now comes the proper rehearsal, which means on top of the four / five hour commute, the three hours at the venue performing, I'm adding another two hours plus of rehearsal a day. This is fine, at present, as I can learn my lines on the train - in-between reading Great Expectations (which has been rather enjoyable). I expect by next week this routine will start to pall, but thems the breaks. Then I get a couple days off for Christmas and straight into the new show.
And it will be a slightly different show each night. I've got a number of one-off guest performers joining me across the two weeks, and I'll be posting the details of these fine performers on my blog over the next week or so.
Well, all that remains is to do my preview of the GhoStoryteller show which follows after this announcement from a friend of mine....

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Robert Crighton is an award-winning storyteller, writer and performer, who produces several new works a year. He is only entrant in the 30ish year history of the Lost One-Act Festival to win three awards in successive years and is sadly no longer eligible to win anymore. He is much like Bagpuss.